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2005 down the hill and round the bendmaura @ 7:04 pm We came home from my mom’s today and Gus is gorging on his Thomas videos. ABSOLUTE JOY. Forgot to mention this Thanksgiving tidbit: my mom had bought Spumoni ice cream, which is chocolate, pistachio and tutti frutti all together (ugh, even typing it out makes me slightly nauseous). Gus ran around the whole afternoon demanding to look at the baloney ice cream, with fruity doody in it. Yum! 24November
2005 shunting cars and hauling freightmaura @ 9:48 pm Gus’ waxing and waning obsession with Thomas the Tank Engine is in full wax mode these days. I think it’s because we recently discovered that the show is on PBS on Sunday mornings. Since we don’t have cable he’s not really familiar with the whole concept of TV, which means that this past weekend we spent from 6:45am (when we woke up) until 8am (when Thomas is on) repeatedly answering the questions: “Is Thomas on yet? When will Thomas be on? Why isn’t Thomas on now?” At least we remembered to tape it last weekend. The prior weekend we’d forgotten and thus spent the ENTIRE day recounting the episodes to him: “Mommy, tell me about Fergus* and the smelter again.” After the 5th rendition I was seriously ready to rip my head off. Thank god for VCRs. Or maybe not, because now the damn theme song is on endless loop in my head. Shoot me now. *Little does he know that this is the very name I really wanted for his little highness, but Jonathan shot it down. Happy Thanksgiving! Not that any meal cooked by Jonathan and my mom is ever anything less than extremely tasty, but this year’s was particularly yummy and fairly healthy to boot. Turkey, stuffing (with bacon!), sweet potato fries, kale (with bacon!), cranberry sauce, sauteed mushrooms (with bacon!), roasted squash (I think delicata?), creamed onions (eeewww, for my mom + J), brussels sprouts (for J only, with bacon!). YAY for bacon, I say. Now there’s a meat to be thankful for. Tomorrow is Buy Nothing Day. Live radical — spend no money! les tags: buy nothing day
23November
2005 and in my heart there are no worriesmaura @ 9:57 pm At a big work meeting not too long ago someone said that a blog can’t really be considered current unless it’s updated daily, or even multiple times a day. I guess that’s life in the corporate world. Here in the crabby crusty tired old lady world we can ignore our blogs for aaaaaaaaaaaaaages, without even offending any of our 3-ish regular readers! Oh yes, we can! And in other news, my kid will be four (4!) in a mere 10 days and it is completely blowing my mind. Four. He’s writing his name (albeit backwards) now and can actually do some simple addition and subtraction, on the spot, with no visual aids. Go Montessori preschool, go! He’s getting this bike for his birthday, which will BLOW HIS LITTLE MIND. His best buddy from school has one and he’s been talking about it for ages. Now we just need to put it together and find someone to lend us a pump to blow up the tires. Time for Lost! Leave me alone! |
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